Katharine Batt is a Palliative Medicine provider in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Her top areas of expertise are Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) and Acquired Hemophilia.

I find great joy in my work because of the relationships that I form with my patients and their families. My hope is to personalize care for each patient and to serve not only medical needs, but also attend to psychosocial and spiritual needs. I am particularly interested in care for children/adolescents with medical complexity and transitions of care from childhood to adulthood. Having spent time in Taiwan and Kenya as well as working with the underserved right here in Durham, I have developed a strong passion for both local and global health advocacy. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, hiking with my dog, watching Disney/Pixar movies, and rooting for Duke basketball and the Buffalo Bills!.

Palliative care is care oriented toward relief of difficult symptoms, usually but not always in patients with very advanced illness. Palliative medicine is a subspecialty of medicine that develops skills, expertise, techniques and practices to address difficult symptoms such as pain, nausea and breathlessness. The first thing I want to know from a patient is their story. Who are they, to whom do they belong, what’s their place, who do they love and who loves them? What has their life work been about? How have they experienced their illness? How has it changed, threatened and disrupted all of that. And I want to know what they hope for with the health and life that remains for them, and what stands most in the way of them being able to continue to live in relationship with those they love and complete the work they have left to do. Then I can use judgment and discernment to apply the interventions that palliative medicine makes possible to help them in that process.

I started my health care career during college as a nursing assistant in a nursing home in Pennsylvania. During my training at Brown University, I came to discover that my true passion was caring for people with serious illness and spent the first decade of my career in hospitals, providing palliative services to patients admitted to the floors or intensive care units. Since then, missing longer-term relationships with patients, I've spent more time on the outpatient side of palliative care, working to partner with those with serious or advanced illnesses to help make life better. Whether treating pain, constipation, nausea, shortness of breath, anxiety, depression, fatigue, poor appetite, poor sleep, or any other symptoms making people feel lousy, I aim to use medicines and non-medicine strategies to improve quality of life and function. I also support everyone's Plan A of getting better and back to normal life and Plan B if things don't go as we hope. Helping someone become well enough to take a trip to the beach or the mountains or play a bit more with their kids or grandkids is what makes me tick!. His top area of expertise is ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Susan Legrand is a Palliative Medicine provider in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Legrand is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer, and Phantom Limb Pain. Dr. Legrand is currently accepting new patients.

Mellar Davis is a Hematologist and a Palliative Medicine provider in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Davis is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Multiple Myeloma, Chronic Pain, ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, and Acute Intermittent Porphyria. Dr. Davis is currently accepting new patients.

David Frate is a Palliative Medicine specialist and a Family Medicine provider in Concord, North Carolina. Dr. Frate is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Hypertension, Sacroiliac Joint Disease, Lysosomal Acid Lipase De���ciency, and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF). Dr. Frate is currently accepting new patients.

Gautam Kale is a Palliative Medicine specialist and an Addiction Medicine provider in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dr. Kale is highly rated in 12 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Throat Cancer, Laryngeal Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, and Familial Pancreatic Cancer. Dr. Kale is currently accepting new patients.

Leanne Groban is a Palliative Medicine provider in Newton, North Carolina. Dr. Groban is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Menopause, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Caitlin Siropaides is a Palliative Medicine provider in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Dr. Siropaides is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Opioid Induced Constipation, ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Chronic Pain, and Smoldering Multiple Myeloma. Dr. Siropaides is currently accepting new patients.

Sanjay Shah is a Palliative Medicine specialist and a Nephrologist in Dunn, North Carolina. Dr. Shah is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Kidney Disease, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Nephrosclerosis, and Renovascular Hypertension. Dr. Shah is currently accepting new patients.

I am a palliative medicine physician and medical educator, taking care of patients in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. I also serve as the program director for the Duke Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship. I am particularly interested in palliative care education and have developed a series of online modules for those in the health care field. Her top area of expertise is Opioid Induced Constipation.

Bridget Hiller is a Palliative Medicine provider in Monroe, North Carolina. Her top areas of expertise are Gastrostomy and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Hiller is currently accepting new patients.

Armida Parala is a Palliative Medicine provider in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her top areas of expertise are ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Smoldering Multiple Myeloma, Chronic Pain, and Pediatric Low-Grade Glioma (pLGG). Dr. Parala is currently accepting new patients.

Boris Krivitsky is a Palliative Medicine provider in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Krivitsky has been practicing medicine for over 25 years. His top areas of expertise are Liver Failure, Chronic Pain, and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF).

David Fisher is a Palliative Medicine provider in Durham, North Carolina. His top area of expertise is Vitamin D Deficiency. Dr. Fisher is currently accepting new patients.

Ye Aung is a Palliative Medicine provider in Charlotte, North Carolina. His top area of expertise is Opioid Induced Constipation. Dr. Aung is currently accepting new patients.

Kristin Meade is a Palliative Medicine provider in Durham, North Carolina. Her top area of expertise is Liver Embolization. Dr. Meade is currently accepting new patients.

Beth Susi is a Palliative Medicine provider in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Susi has been practicing medicine for over 32 years. Her top areas of expertise are Opioid Induced Constipation and Obesity. Dr. Susi is currently accepting new patients.

April Caperna is a Palliative Medicine provider in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Caperna has been practicing medicine for over 17 years. Her top area of expertise is Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy. Dr. Caperna is currently accepting new patients.

Charles Stinson is a Palliative Medicine provider in Winston Salem, North Carolina. His top areas of expertise are Gastrostomy and Carotid Artery Surgery.

Jennifer Aron is a Palliative Medicine provider in New Bern, North Carolina. Her top area of expertise is ALK-Positive Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Dr. Aron is currently accepting new patients.

Ramesh Krishnaraj is a Palliative Medicine specialist and a Hospital Medicine provider in Nags Head, North Carolina. His top areas of expertise are Pseudobulbar Affect, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Chronic Pain, and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Dr. Krishnaraj is currently accepting new patients.

Afaque Akhtar is a Palliative Medicine specialist and a Pain Medicine provider in Fuquay Varina, North Carolina. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Pain, Opisthotonos, Muscle Spasms, and Invertebral Disc Disease. Dr. Akhtar is currently accepting new patients.

Violeta Mihailescu is a Palliative Medicine specialist and a Geriatrics provider in Matthews, North Carolina. Her top areas of expertise are Familial Hypertension, Hypertension, Decorticate Posture, and Decerebrate Posture. Dr. Mihailescu is currently accepting new patients.